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A Seminole woman approached General Andrew Jackson after a skirmish during the First Seminole War. She claimed to have knowledge of the whereabouts of Peter McQueen, an Indian prophet whom the United States Army had been pursuing for some time. General Jackson had recently just narrowly missed capturing his at Natural Bridge. As per his quick temper, the general was enraged. This Seminole woman presumably...

General Andrew Jackson learned in the spring of 1818 that the Seminoles were gathering en masse in Pensacola, which, at the time, was in Spanish-controlled Florida. He also had heard reports of Indians murdering whites in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. He was, in fact, sent down to Fort Scott because of Seminole retaliatory strikes against the United States in late 1817. General Jackson concluded that...

Fort St. Marks was a Spanish-occupied fort in Florida, but by early May of 1818, the Spanish were, in the opinion of United States General Andrew Jackson, rapidly losing their ability to control it and, as a result, it was vulnerable to changing hands to the Seminoles'. As the end of the First Seminole War was in sight, this was not something General Jackson could allow to happen. So he approached...

After the First Seminole War and the United States' acquisition of Florida, the U.S. Government encouraged the self-governance of the Seminoles as a united tribe. As 1823 turned to 1824, Neamathla was the head chief of the Seminole Nation. This would not last, however. By July, he had been removed by the United States because of growing tension between him and the governor of the Florida territory,...

Early in the nineteenth century, the United States' soldiers scouted out Indians in order to rid the new white settlements in the south of Indians. Many soldiers in their infantries would leave their fort and go scout and capture Indians; however, majority of the time the soldiers killed the Indians instead because the Indians resisted capture. When a soldier caught an Indian off guard and alone, the...

The River of Lies was a body of water that some Seminoles lived near when the soldiers came to gather the Indians for removal. The river is located near today's Jupiter, Florida and acquired its name from an assumed thought that the fighting was over between the Indians and white settlers.
Soldiers came, gathered, and removed the Indians from their homes by the river. Some Indians escaped the soldiers'...